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Grateful Dead Live at Hartford Civic Center on 1988-04-05

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1988-04-05 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Live concert

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Item Size: 1.2G

Hell In A Bucket-> Sugaree, Walkin' Blues, Dire Wolf, It's All Over Now, Bird Song, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Might As Well Iko Iko, Louie Louie, Samson & Delilah, Ship of Fools, Smokestack Lightning-> Jam-> Drums-> Jam-> I Need A Miracle-> Wharf Rat-> Throwing Stones-> Not Fade Away, E: Knockin' On Heaven's Door

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AUD>PCM>CD (Possible Matrix, Healy-FM or one damn good audience recording!); via Ankh-af-na-khonsu; Seeded to etree by PainoMan

Addeddate: 2004-07-02 14:00:48

Has_mp3: 1

Identifier: gd88-04-05.aud.painoman.10073.sbeok.shnf

Location: Hartford, CT

Numeric_id: 15782

Shndiscs: 2

Source: AUD>PCM>CD (Possible Matrix, Healy-FM or one damn good audience recording!)

Type: sound

Venue: Hartford Civic Center

Year: 1988

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Reviews (3)

Reviewer: skr213 - - January 28, 2008
Subject: Solid, but not great - good recording

Overall: A very good recording of a solid, but not particularly special show.
The scene: second show for Peter and my spring break tour from our senior ... year in high school. Some homeless Hartford skater-type kids showed us around town, which was interesting (Peter remembers more of this than me). I hung out in the hallway for this show. The hallways in Hartford were funny. I can still remember looking up while dancing and noticing the unfinished ceiling with pipes and vents running all over the place. My impression was of a somewhat run-down old hockey arena (which is what it was - this was back in the old Hartford Whaler days). I think the place got some improvements over the years, but on this year it definitely had some old-funk charm.
The music: Set I: Jerry's voice definitely seems better than the night before, although some of the set is pretty standard. Brent does some nice organ work on All Over Now to bring things up in energy. Bird Song contains a very nice jam. Masterpiece is also somewhat noteworthy. Jerry's voice is struggling on Might as Well, but its hard to take the good vibe out of that song.
Set II: Iko is strong and they don't rush it, which is nice, but it's nothing particularly strong (especially if the last time you heard it was on 12/31/87, which was a really good version). Louise Louise is sweet. Brent gets to show off for a bit, and the groove is nice. However, this one seems to end with a case of the boys all looking at each other waiting for someone to do something. No one took the lead, so it kind of died out. Bobby takes out the slide on Sampson and brings a nice jam that much higher. Ship is standard. Smokstack is always welcome in my book. This one starts strong and Jerry gives it some good punch after Bobby spits his vocals. The post-space Miracle>Wharf Rat>Throw>Away is standard. Of note is that the crowd is able to keep the Not Fade chant going smoothly enough that the band comes back up on stage for the encore and finishes the chant with the audience. Not an entirely rare occurrence, but pretty cool when it happened. Knockin is standard.

Reviewer: jboyaquar - - November 22, 2005
Subject: By saying this is the best of the bunch does Not mean you search long and hard to tune in.

Hopefully the good folks in Hartford can be treated to one good show out of three.
1st Set: Two minutes of nominal tuning precede the 'out of the gates' ...

Reviewer: lobster12 - - March 29, 2005 (edited)
Subject: finish strong

jerry's voice is better and it shows. Standard, but well played first set. second set is pretty good as well. Nothing to go crazy over, but you can tell ...

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